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Tactical Peek's JournalErik Prince tells House investigators he met with Kremlin-linked banker in Seychelles
Source: Washington Post
By Karoun Demirjian November 30 at 9:06 PM
Erik Prince, a supporter of the Trump presidential campaign and founder of the security firm Blackwater, confirmed to House investigators Thursday that he met with a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin while in the Seychelles earlier this year, according to multiple people familiar with the interview.
Under questioning, Prince told members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that he had met Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, during a secret Jan. 11 meeting in the Seychelles brokered by the United Arab Emirates as part of an apparent attempt to set up backchannel communications between then-President-elect Donald Trump and Moscow.
Dmitriev was first identified as Prince’s Russian contact in the Seychelles by the Intercept earlier this week.
The admission to investigators that he met with Dmitriev is a turnaround for Prince, who initially refused through a spokesman to identify the Russian with whom he had met, and later said he couldn’t remember his name.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/erik-prince-tells-house-investigators-he-met-with-kremlin-linked-banker-in-seychelles/2017/11/30/c8a66e3e-d62e-11e7-95bf-df7c19270879_story.html?utm_term=.acd4115b9455
Be Advised: Maxine Waters Speaking to the Women's Convention Last Month
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4692727/maxine-waters-speaking-womens-convention
Killer
Stuck: Heraclite et Democrite: Recitative and Aria: Dans un abime affreux et Pleurez mes yeux
Jean Baptiste Stuck: Heraclite et Democrite: Recitative and Aria: Dans un abime affreux et Pleurez mes yeux
My current aural obsession, the aria just kills me.
"1) advertiser pulled $$ . . . 2) US far-right attacks advertiser 3) Russians super-amplify"
https://twitter.com/MollyMcKew/status/929889780040691714Molly McKew?Verified account @MollyMcKew
Molly McKew Retweeted Caroline O.
So. Breaking this down.
1) advertiser pulled $$ from disagreeable far-right content (Hannity)
2) US far-right attacks advertiser
3) Russians super-amplify
Which is another example of how info ops can have commercial/financial impact
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/929813957447176194
Per @SecureDemocracy's Russian propaganda tracker (3pm):
-#BoycottKeurig is now the #1 overall hashtag & #1 trending hashtag in Russian-linked influence networks (20,300% increase in use).
-"Keurig" is the #1 topic in Russian-linked influence networks (35,600% increase in use)
Jayuf Secessions consults with his daddy about the Senate race back home in Alabama.
(SNL)
Documenting the Atrocities - Hate Images
This link is to a Facebook video, from the Ross Barnett Reservoir area near Jackson, Mississippi
https://www.facebook.com/fred.chambliss/videos/10215195809476753/?permPage=1
Fred Chambliss depicts a neighbor's display of an effigy hanging from a flag pole.
How Republicans Are Jumping on New Steele Scoop to Distract From Trump-Russia Scandal - David Corn
How Republicans Are Jumping on the New Steele Scoop to Distract From the Trump-Russia Scandal
Meanwhile, they are promoting a counter-controversy of dubious origins.
David Corn
Oct. 25, 2017 2:47 PM
The cognitive dissonance of the Republicans is pegging the needle this week. The news that a law firm working for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee bankrolled the Trump opposition research project that produced the infamous Trump-Russia memos has touched off much howling in GOP and conservative quarters. The revelation that these Democratic outfits financed the digging of Christopher David Steele, the veteran British counterintelligence officer, was a scoop—but it does not fundamentally change the landscape.
When the existence of these memos was first reported (uh, by me, in October 2016), I noted that Steele’s investigation was underwritten by a Democratic source. Now the public knows which ones. But as Republicans seize on this development to try to discredit the Steele memos and the whole Trump-Russia scandal, they are also pushing for an investigation into what they claim is the real scandal involving Hillary Clinton and the sale of a uranium company with US operations to a Russian government agency. Fact-checkers have already declared this supposed scandal, which President Donald Trump has pushed, a phony. But here’s where the hypocrisy truly kicks in: the Clinton-uranium story originated with an anti-Clinton book called Clinton Cash, which was produced at a nonprofit supported by right-wing hedge-fund manager Robert Mercer and co-founded by conservative firebrand Stephen Bannon.
So you see what’s happening? Republicans are asserting the Steele memos should be dismissed because they are a dastardly Democratic oppo concoction and saying this somehow undermines the whole Trump-Russia scandal. Yet at the same time, they are demanding an investigation of the fake Clinton-uranium scandal that was based on a debunked story subsidized and promoted by a big-money conservative donor and Trump backer.
At the heart of all this is a simple and troubling fact: Most Republicans don’t seem to give a damn about the Russian assault on the 2016 election and the profound implications of that act of information warfare. Trump, of course, has refused to fully acknowledge Vladimir Putin’s attack on American democracy and has branded all reporting of interactions between him and his associates and Russia as “fake news.” (His denial of Russia’s actions was one form of collusion.) Most of his party has followed his lead. Though there are three congressional investigations underway related to the Trump-Russia scandal, several prominent Republicans, including Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, have been trying to change the subject by focusing on the Steele documents more than the extensive Russian covert plot—which included the hack-and-dump operations and, as we know realize, clandestine social-media campaigns. These Republicans also have been attempting to develop competing scandals, such as the Clinton-uranium affair or the unmasking controversy. (For the latter pseudo-scandal—a Nunes favorite—Republicans have claimed former Obama administration officials who reviewed classified intelligence intercepts improperly asked for the names of Americans caught in US intelligence eavesdropping. Unmasking actually is a common action conducted by national security officials, and so far there has been no evidence anyone engaged in wrongful unmasking.)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/how-republicans-are-jumping-on-the-new-steele-scoop-to-distract-from-the-trump-russia-scandal/
BREAKING on CNN! U.S. Forces Fight Against Counterterrorism!
No wonder this is all so difficult!
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